What important truth do few people agree with you on?

Stop shaming kids for screen time and video games.

Related: video games have positive mental health benefits.[2]

As a parent, nothing seems to create more issues than screen time. Ive seen other parents get fairly harsh with extreme limits with their kids screen time consumption. It’s like abstinence education for sex: it just doesn’t work and ultimately backfires. Indeed research has shown kids have to get pretty extreme in their screentime usage for it to be harmful [1]

Better to let kids have screen time and teach them safe ways to use it and work with them to moderate their usage. It just so happens this is what treatment for “video game addiction” does - teaches moderation of the activity not abstinence.

1 - https://thenextweb.com/news/screen-time-doesnt-harm-kids-but...

2. - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0026...

"What important truth do few people agree with you on, but is also innocuous enough that you can admit to on a public forum where your true identity might be known or revealed?"

"...the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts... It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person."

~ Solzhenitsyn

Humans aren't nearly as intelligent as they've come to believe themselves to be.

- PROT

Your children don't need good grades to be successful.

All fiat money eventually succumbs to hyperinflation

It might otherwise have been interesting to contemplate, but now that I know it's Peter Thiel's famous question, I can't unsee it as a transparent attempt to gain my confidence by pretending to identify with me, sort of like when police interrogators try to act like the suspect's bro. It also seems to presuppose that I crave an opportunity to be heard and validated by anyone who will listen. If I'm not worried about alienating the questioner, my honest answer is "what crazy beliefs do you envision me holding and what gave you that impression about me?". If it's a high stakes situation, my answer is whatever I think the questioner endorses.

It's nice to be nice. I am amazed how many people think this is the same as being weak.

Don’t have biological kids. Don’t eat meat. Don’t fly in planes. Don’t drive. Live in the smallest home you can in a dense city. Take action politically.

This is how you should live your life if you are worried/care about climate change.

"Put your oxygen mask first, before you help others."

Focus on yourself. Figure out what brings you joy. Follow it. Work hard. Don't complain. Be kind. And once you have something to share, offer it to everyone around you. Anonymously, unconditionally, shamelessly.

Many people seemed convinced that voting is a significant part of the solution. I disagree. Be the best version of yourself and then share that wealth with the ones around you.

Any election's outcome will be the same whether I vote or not.

It can't be truer, but somehow people get really mad at me when I say it.

Capability Based Security is essential to the continuation of a free and open internet, and democracy in the USA.

Without it, nobody's computer is safe. Without that, we can't trust random sites on the internet, and get stuffed into walled gardens, and our privacy is mined for the profit of others.

This is corrosive to democracy.

That electoral fraud is a vanishingly small problem in the USA.

Success is not the amount of stuff you have. It's about being content.

Capitalist culture is convinced that greed and desire and impatience is good, because it leads to more stuff being created and bought, and from some arbitrary standard, this "economy" is the golden standard of success.

And yet suicide rates and loneliness go up in these places, while family values go down. What are you really working so hard for?

Poverty is a problem, but most poor places are poor because of corruption. And corruption happens because some people think they need 8 cars or whatever to be content. And the reason they're not content is because they think contentment leads to complacency and poverty.

I believe close to most human beings are pathological narcissists (the clinical kind).

Nothing really matters.

There is only ONE